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Re: Fewer mallocs is better, episode #47

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:37:42 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Gisle Vanem via curl-library wrote:

>>  Allocations: 174  Maximum allocated: 201684
>
> This depends on '%CURL_SSL_BACKEND' too.
> With 'openssl', I get similar to the above.

Oh yes thanks, I forgot to mention that. I used the same OpenSSL version (and
the same set of other depedencies as well) in all my builds.

OpenSSL is one of the three TLS backends that use that function I optimized.

> But with 'schannel', I get:
> Allocations: 579 Maximum allocated: 811709

The schannel TLS backend is notoriously "mallocy", to the extent that I added
13.7 to the TODO recently: "Less memory massaging with Schannel":

   https://curl.se/docs/todo.html#Less_memory_massaging_with_Schan

If you download or upload large content, you'll see it hit the roof in a way
it really shouldn't.

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